Odger's English Common Law

252 NUISANCE.
shaft, within twenty-five yards of the centre of a carriage-way, or erects a
windmill within fifty yards of it, will be- liable to be fined £5 unless
sufficient screens are erected to prevent horses being frightened. 1
So it is an offence for which every person offending may be fined 40s.
over and above the damages which he occasions 2 :
To wilfully ride upon any footpath or causeway by the side of any road
made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot-passengers.
To wilfully lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine or cattle, or
carriage of any description, or any truck or sledge, upon any such footpath
or causeway.
To tether any horse, ass, mule, swine or cattle on any highway so as to
suffer or permit the tethered animal to be thereon.
To cause any injury or damage to be done to the surface of any highway,
or to the hedges, posts, rails, walls or fences of any highway.
To wilfully obstruct the passage of any footway.
To dig or cut down the banks which are the securities and defence of
any highway.
To pull down, destroy, obliterate or deface any milestone or post,
graduated or direction post or stone, erected upon any highway.
To play football or any other game on any part of a highway to the
annoyance of any passenger. 3
For any hawker, higgler, gipsy or other person travelling, to pitch
any tent, booth, stall or stand, or to encamp upon any part of any
highway.
To make or assist in making any fire, or wantonly fire off any gun or
pistol, or set fire to or wantonly let off or throw any squib, rocket, serpent
or other firework whatsoever within fifty feet of the centre of any carriageway
or cartway.
To bait, or run for the purpose of baiting, any bull upon or near any
highway.
To lay any timber, stone, hay, straw, dung, manure, lime, soil, ashes,
rubbish or other matter or thing whatsoever upon any highway, to the
injury, interruption or personal danger of any person travelling
thereon.
To suffer any filth, dirt, lime or other offensive matter or thing
whatsoever to run or flow into or upon any highway from any house,
building, erection, lands or premises adjacent thereto.
The owner of any cart or waggon will be liable to a fine not exceeding
40s., if it has not his name and address painted on the off-side in white
letters not less than an inch high on a black background or in black letters
on a white ground. 4
Any person riding without reins, or leaving a vehicle on the road, or
keeping his wrong side and obstructing the free passage of others, or riding
or driving furiously so as to endanger the life or limb of any passenger,
—
i Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 60), s. 70.
2 lb. s. 72.
3 Pap-pin v. Maynard (1863), 27 J. P. 745.
* lb. s. 76.